> Ok. Same here. (4.0.35 is not yet stable on my distro, gentoo, hence I > quoted results with 4.0.28).
But I can't reproduce it with bash-4.0.28, either: $ ./bash --version GNU bash, version 4.0.28(2)-release (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. $ ./bash -xc 'set -eE;on_error() { echo ERROR ERROR; };trap on_error ERR;if [ -n "$(echo $0 |grep a)" ];then echo "input contains 'a'";fi' a + set -eE + trap on_error ERR ++ echo a ++ grep a + '[' -n a ']' + echo 'input contains a' input contains a $ ./bash -xc 'set -eE;on_error() { echo ERROR ERROR; };trap on_error ERR;if [ -n "$(echo $0 |grep a)" ];then echo "input contains 'a'";fi' b + set -eE + trap on_error ERR ++ echo b ++ grep a + '[' -n '' ']' -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
